Originally Posted by
BirdFlu
Is it really true that Google scans every piece of ingoing and outgoing gmail? I doubt it, that would be a lot of server space...
All email services scan your email. They do this routinely to provide such popular features as spam filtering, virus detection, search, spellchecking, forwarding, auto-responding, flagging urgent mess ages, converting incoming email into cell phone text messages, automatic saving and sorting into folders, converting text URLs to clickable links, and reading messages to the blind. These features are widely accepted, trusted, and used by hundreds of millions of people every day.
But they also do scan them for personal information. Whenever you receive an email the advertisments in your googleaccount become more personalized, which certainly is a proof that they do collect information.
There's a whole thread on wikipedia about this issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google
Last edited by GHB; Jul 27, 2010 at 08:44 PM.